Seeing Through Paintings

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This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present. aAn essential handbook for the pro, and also a beautifully illustrated primer for the layperson. Kirsh and Levenson teach the most valuable lessons about painting of all: how meanings, material, and techniques are bound up together.aaJohn Walsh, former director, J. Paul Getty Museum aEvery element of Kirsh and Levenson's book is smart, concise, and informative. . . . [It is] the essential book on its subject.aaKenneth Baker, San Francisco Examiner a Chronicle aA long overdue book with direct relevance for modern students of the history of art.aaLibby Sheldon, Burlington MagazineUses technical analysis, including X-ray studies and direct examination of the
canvas. ... uses of X-ray studies in comparing variants: to study working
procedures, iconography, and El Grecoa#39;s stance within contemporary theoretical
debates. ... London: Tate Gallery. See Rica Jones, aquot;The Artists Training and
Techniques, aquot; pp.

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Seeing Through Paintings

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Andrea Kirsh, Rustin S. Levenson

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Yale University Press - 2002-04-01

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